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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Aunty has a "Bright" Idea--veinglory
Imagine if you needed a separate ISBN for every format your ebook was offered in. You may not need to imagine it for very long if the PA/BA Liaison Group get their way.
And who, you may ask, is the BA/PA Liaison Group. Well they: work to identify and initiate action on some of the challenges facing the book trade for the benefit of all in the industry.
They are specifically a group within the British Publishers Association whose membership is drawn from Random House, Penguin, Lttle Brown, Macmillan, Faber & Faber, HarperCollins and Scholastic.
PA proudly and repeatedly claim to "[r]epresent the large majority of UK publishing by turnover..." "By turnover" perhaps meaning, mostly the big boys who don't e-publish as their core business and so don't care much about the cost of a separate ISBN for different digital formats? ¶ posted at 6:18 PM by Emily Veinglory 1 Comments
And who, you may ask, is the BA/PA Liaison Group. Well they: work to identify and initiate action on some of the challenges facing the book trade for the benefit of all in the industry.
They are specifically a group within the British Publishers Association whose membership is drawn from Random House, Penguin, Lttle Brown, Macmillan, Faber & Faber, HarperCollins and Scholastic.
PA proudly and repeatedly claim to "[r]epresent the large majority of UK publishing by turnover..." "By turnover" perhaps meaning, mostly the big boys who don't e-publish as their core business and so don't care much about the cost of a separate ISBN for different digital formats? ¶ posted at 6:18 PM by Emily Veinglory 1 Comments
Thursday, July 17, 2008
A sign that Borders doesn't really "get" online bookselling--veinglory
The got plastic transfers on their shop doors advertising their new, non-Amazon website at least 4 days before they emailed online members with the same information.
¶ posted at 4:14 PM by Emily Veinglory 0 Comments
¶ posted at 4:14 PM by Emily Veinglory 0 Comments
Meetup--veinglory
I think Meetup is a rather useful website. It is fee charging but it made it very easy for me to start up a writers group and get members straight away. So if you are starved for the company of other writers and there are no exiting writers groups nearby, you might like to give it a go.
But I was rather surprised to see a Meetup for writers, where the people who join are charged fees: "Session one: $25; Sessions 2 and 3: $35 For under $100 you will receive a concentrated dose inito the world of book writing." Oh and they have on of those contests where you win "free" publishing for your book--you know how much I like those.
So who is it run by? Ernie and Mary Carwile who, no matter how slickly, are published because they published themselves. I wonder if the membership will remain at 1, and if they get members will those people be happy with what they end up getting a concentrated dose of. (Update, last time I checked they have 4 members).
[Gleened from this thread at Absolute Write]
I think Meetup is a rather useful website. It is fee charging but it made it very easy for me to start up a writers group and get members straight away. So if you are starved for the company of other writers and there are no exiting writers groups nearby, you might like to give it a go.But I was rather surprised to see a Meetup for writers, where the people who join are charged fees: "Session one: $25; Sessions 2 and 3: $35 For under $100 you will receive a concentrated dose inito the world of book writing." Oh and they have on of those contests where you win "free" publishing for your book--you know how much I like those.
So who is it run by? Ernie and Mary Carwile who, no matter how slickly, are published because they published themselves. I wonder if the membership will remain at 1, and if they get members will those people be happy with what they end up getting a concentrated dose of. (Update, last time I checked they have 4 members).
[Gleened from this thread at Absolute Write]
Labels: Meetup
¶ posted at 3:15 PM by Emily Veinglory 2 Comments
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Sinful Moments
It appears that the erotic romance imprint of Lachesis, Sinful Moments, is still a live idea. But I would suggest checking out this thread at Absolute Write for background on the parent company.
Labels: SINFUL MOMENTS (imprint)
¶ posted at 8:01 AM by Emily Veinglory 3 Comments
Monday, July 14, 2008
Borders--veinglory
There have been on-again off-again rumors about drastic cut backs at Borders for some time now. The suggestions leak out, get "corrected", and reappear again. It isn't the only issue on which Borders prevaricates. I mean they refused to carry the issue of Free Inquiry that carried the Mohammad cartoons, but do carry an issue of Harpers with the same content. They announced over a year ago that they would be replacing their Amazon-powered website and starting their own--and then went very quiet on that issue and the site languished in beta version. Then recently the website popped out of beta with very little warning or ceremony.
Meanwhile rumors of large scale selling off of their brick and mortar stores are only becoming stronger and more credible. On the back of the ongoing selling off of international stories (franchised under the same brand but no longer part of the company), the rather unheralded, low key roll out of the website (with second hand books available through an Alibris-powered marketplace) does feel, to me at least, like a precursor to retrenchment of the US stores or at least a major re-shuffle. I suppose only time will tell.
My somewhat negative attitude to the chain may, of course, also related to my erotic romance being shelved in the psychology section and my high fantasy under gay fiction. To me love and/or dragons are the most salient features of the stories, not sex scenes and/or the hero being gay.
[Breaking news] Blackfooted ferrets in peril
Meanwhile rumors of large scale selling off of their brick and mortar stores are only becoming stronger and more credible. On the back of the ongoing selling off of international stories (franchised under the same brand but no longer part of the company), the rather unheralded, low key roll out of the website (with second hand books available through an Alibris-powered marketplace) does feel, to me at least, like a precursor to retrenchment of the US stores or at least a major re-shuffle. I suppose only time will tell.
My somewhat negative attitude to the chain may, of course, also related to my erotic romance being shelved in the psychology section and my high fantasy under gay fiction. To me love and/or dragons are the most salient features of the stories, not sex scenes and/or the hero being gay.
[Breaking news] Blackfooted ferrets in peril
Labels: Borders
¶ posted at 1:31 PM by Emily Veinglory 3 Comments
Sunday, July 13, 2008
GUEST MONDAY: “The Brotherhood Secret” by Mima
The ah-ha moment for me came when I read an interview of Christine Feehan’s. She was asked why she felt her Carpathian series was so successful, and what she said has informed every book I’ve written to date. I consider it my secret ingredient to success, and in the spirit of Romance Divas, the forum of generous authors who have helped me enormously, I’m going to share it.
She said it wasn’t about the romance. It was about the community. (This is all me paraphrasing because I have no link or citation for this interview.) She said the books were popular because of the men as a group. It was the band of brothers, the subtext of ho-yay, the romance of wounded men who have nothing but each other. Queue Cheers theme song. Note how she has used the same technique in both of her newer series, the Drake Sisters and the Ghostwalkers. If I had to point to major ebook authors who have used this technique successfully I would list Lora Leigh, Shiloh Walker, and Sherri L. King.
In my first series, the Bonded fantasies, I specifically set out to use this technique. I used my knowledge of Norse history (I’m a lifelong student and practitioner of the runes) to create an honorable, isolated male community. I’ve had readers write me not to talk about the romance, but to tell me that they have fallen in love with the world of shape shifter Clans. If only, they say, the world still functioned on the importance of individual and collective honor. They want to live there. In my Singer stories, I created a trio of men, and their friendship is the core of their conflict and growth. In my Server series, the semi-parasitic alien warriors defending the universe work in four man teams. Even in my newest short story “Earning her Stripes,” the feline shifter contemporary has a closed secret community that is a major subplot.
At this point, I can’t imagine writing a one man-one woman romance. It isn’t about enriching the world building with realistic supporting characters, it’s about layering the romance of humanity at it’s best into the story. Who doesn’t wish they had a place where they belonged utterly, with people who knew them and accepted them? You wanna be where everybody knows your name, and where they’ve got your back.
Mima is a children’s librarian in western NY. First published last year at age 37, she crash landed with eight contracts at three publishers. She remains in a full body cast from the shock of it, which thankfully doesn’t affect her brain’s erotic musings. [www.mimawithin.com]
She said it wasn’t about the romance. It was about the community. (This is all me paraphrasing because I have no link or citation for this interview.) She said the books were popular because of the men as a group. It was the band of brothers, the subtext of ho-yay, the romance of wounded men who have nothing but each other. Queue Cheers theme song. Note how she has used the same technique in both of her newer series, the Drake Sisters and the Ghostwalkers. If I had to point to major ebook authors who have used this technique successfully I would list Lora Leigh, Shiloh Walker, and Sherri L. King.
In my first series, the Bonded fantasies, I specifically set out to use this technique. I used my knowledge of Norse history (I’m a lifelong student and practitioner of the runes) to create an honorable, isolated male community. I’ve had readers write me not to talk about the romance, but to tell me that they have fallen in love with the world of shape shifter Clans. If only, they say, the world still functioned on the importance of individual and collective honor. They want to live there. In my Singer stories, I created a trio of men, and their friendship is the core of their conflict and growth. In my Server series, the semi-parasitic alien warriors defending the universe work in four man teams. Even in my newest short story “Earning her Stripes,” the feline shifter contemporary has a closed secret community that is a major subplot.
At this point, I can’t imagine writing a one man-one woman romance. It isn’t about enriching the world building with realistic supporting characters, it’s about layering the romance of humanity at it’s best into the story. Who doesn’t wish they had a place where they belonged utterly, with people who knew them and accepted them? You wanna be where everybody knows your name, and where they’ve got your back.
Mima is a children’s librarian in western NY. First published last year at age 37, she crash landed with eight contracts at three publishers. She remains in a full body cast from the shock of it, which thankfully doesn’t affect her brain’s erotic musings. [www.mimawithin.com]Labels: GUEST MONDAY
¶ posted at 5:39 PM by Emily Veinglory 4 Comments
Larissa Ione article--veinglory
It is easy to forget that the general public didn't think that much about the erotic romance genre. When they do come across it the responses certainly fall out a lot of different ways. The journalist writing this story for a local paper clearly took a matter of fact approach.
"Inside Larissa Ione’s head lurk demons, werewolves and people with supernatural and unnatural powers. Also inside? Sex. Lots and lots of sex."
But here are some outakes from the comments:
My children will NEVER be allowed to read TDN again!
Are you going to let them leave the house, watch television or do you monitor them 24/7
I'm just wondering why this was the front page article.
A welcome break from the stories about panty thieves, Meth-heads, and parents who kill their children.
Oh My Gosh. This is disgusting. Have we no better news to put on the front page of the paper.
[full article here] ¶ posted at 4:32 PM by Emily Veinglory 2 Comments
"Inside Larissa Ione’s head lurk demons, werewolves and people with supernatural and unnatural powers. Also inside? Sex. Lots and lots of sex."
But here are some outakes from the comments:
My children will NEVER be allowed to read TDN again!
Are you going to let them leave the house, watch television or do you monitor them 24/7
I'm just wondering why this was the front page article.
A welcome break from the stories about panty thieves, Meth-heads, and parents who kill their children.
Oh My Gosh. This is disgusting. Have we no better news to put on the front page of the paper.
[full article here] ¶ posted at 4:32 PM by Emily Veinglory 2 Comments
Saturday, July 12, 2008
EREC logo?--veinglory
I am about to commission an official logo for EREC and am a little fuzzy on what to ask for. Any suggestions out there for a good logo design that would suit the site, look nice on a T-shirt, and stand out from the usual array of lipstick lips and slinky silhouettes? Any ideas for a design brief appreciated!
¶ posted at 8:01 PM by Emily Veinglory 4 Comments
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Updates--veinglory
Facebook does not allow profiles for pen names of promotion of books through profiles--although you can use Facebook pages for this purpose. Offending profiles are being deleted.
You can now file for a US copyright online for a reduced price of $35. ¶ posted at 7:33 PM by Emily Veinglory 0 Comments
Facebook does not allow profiles for pen names of promotion of books through profiles--although you can use Facebook pages for this purpose. Offending profiles are being deleted.You can now file for a US copyright online for a reduced price of $35. ¶ posted at 7:33 PM by Emily Veinglory 0 Comments
